Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006045Astolfo Sails off with Andronica and Sofrosina
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "P L #29"
Provenance
François Hippolyte Walferdin (1795–1880); sold, Paris, Apr. 12–16, 1880, lot 228. Louis Roederer (1845–1880), Rheims; by descent to his nephew Léon Olry-Roederer (1869–1932); sold by Agnew's, London, to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876–1952), Philadelphia, 1922. Private collection, U.S. Sold by Agnew's, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Mar. 15, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 52 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020.
Publications
Jean Seznec, "Fragonard as an Interpreter of Ariosto: 'The Letter and the Spirit,'" in "Fragonard Drawings for Ariosto" (Pantheon, 1945), pp.41-42, 45, 76, pl. 113. Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, "Fragonard et le Roland furieux" (L'Amateur, 2003), pp. 326-27 (ill.), 389, cat. 150.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Honore Fragonard / French, 1732–1806
- Date
- early 1780s
- Medium
- Black chalk, with pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 39.3 × 26.7 cm (15 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.70
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